Аннотация
Destination: Void
Frank Herbert
I SAW THE pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator.
- Mary Shelley on the creation of FrankensteinPROLOGUE
IT WAS THE fifth clone ship to go out from Moonbase on Project Consciousness and he leaned forward to watch it carefully as his duty demanded. The view showed it passing the Pluto orbit and he knew that by this time the crew had encountered the usual programmed frustrations, even some deaths and serious injuries, but that was the pattern.
Earthling, it was called. Earthling Number Five.
The ship was a giant egg, one-half of it a dark shadow lambent on a starry background, the o...
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